Worship isn't just something we do; it does something to us.

"God’s work in the world is never merely pragmatic. It isn’t simply 'We can organize a program to go and do this.' If you think we can do God’s work like that, read the lives of people like William Wilberforce and think again. You can’t. You need prayer, you need the sacraments, you need that patient faithfulness—because we are not wrestling against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and the world rulers of this present darkness." N.T. Wright 

"Worship isn't just something we do; it does something to us...There is a logic to the shape of intentional, historic Christian worship that performs the gospel over and over again as a way to form and reform our habits. If we fail to immerse ourselves in sacramental, transformative worship, we will not be adequately formed to be ambassadors of Christ’s redemption in and for the world. In short, while the Reformers rightly emphasized the sanctification of ordinary life, they never for a moment thought this would be possible without being sanctified by Word and sacrament." James K. A. Smith, Sanctification for Ordinary Life | Reformed Worship

"If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.... The true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him." John 4:10, 14, 23